I've heard similar things quite often. Always from people who are bitter about their current situation, but refuse to do anything about it.
and given that he's educated enough to know of historical concepts like wage slavery, and presumably someone with a porn budget, it suggests he's probably not in the condition of being too much of a pleb and a dullard to do anything about his situation, but, rather, too comfortable with the affluent life his miserable job affords him to downgrade his life and transition to something new, potentially more rewarding/fruitful, but less profitable. So I'd agree it sounds like a 'refuse to do anything about it' situation, as opposed to 'unfortunate to be unable to better himself' type situation some people suffer in miserable work because of.